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vAPPLICATION FgLED JULY 25. |917.

Patented Feb. ,19, 1918.

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WITNESSES SIDNEY GEORGE FRANK HAAS,

or NEW ORLEANS', LOUISIANA.

METER.'

Application led- July 25,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIDNEY citizen of the United States, of New Orleans, and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful 'Improvements in Meters, of which the following is a specication.;

My .inventionvis an improvement'. 1n me- G. F. HAAs, a and a resident ters, and has for its object the application to water, electric and other meters of `an epicyclic train of gears of small diameter, few

` intended that'the method of construction be followed as the construction`of diiierent meters of the same type or different types of meters may vary very materially.

ln the drawings:

Figure 1 is a sectional view through a water meter showing one form of construction and application of the epicyclic train;

Iigs.'k 2 and 3 are diagrammatic sections taken substantially on the lines 2.-2 and 33, respectively, of F ig. 1;

Fig. 4 is also a sectional view through' a water meter showing a slightly different arrangement of construction, but is essentially the same as Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 shows one form of application of thc epicyclic train to any electric watt hour.

meter.

lieferung more the water-which drivesthe meter 4, which operates a shaft 5 connected toa oke 6,

which is mountedwithin a casingt'or rame 7 rigid with the casing 1. rlhis casing or frame -7 has a hub extension 8 at its' upper end which passes through the partltion 9- that divides the water chamber of the casing from the recording chamber, the said extension being Athreaded through au'penmg in Specication of Letters Patent.

in the parish of Orleans usually very di'erent sizes particularly to Fig. 1, the casing 1 has an'outlet 2 andan inlet 3 for.

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the partition, and the extension alsoextends into the casing or frame 7 through the upper arm of the yoke, and has'integral therewith a gear wheel 10 within the casing.

The shaft 11 which operates the recording I mechanism is journaled in this hub extension, and a gearwheel 12 is secured to the lower end of the shaft. The lower end of the shaft 11 is journaled in the lower arm of the yoke 6,- in alinement with the shaft 5 which is rigid with the said arm of the yoke. 'A countershaft 13 is journaled in the arms of the yoke parallel with the lshaft 11, and gear wheels 14 and 15 are secured to this countershaft, thus having to`revolve together at the same speed, and meshing with the gear .wheels 10 and 12, respectively.v The reduction in speed is obtained by the four gears. As arranged in Fig. 1, if the gear wheel 10 has eleven teeth, the gear wheels 12 and 14 have twelve teeth each, and the gear wheel 15 has thirteen teeth, a reduction of one hundred forty-four to onevis obtained. lt will be obvious, ratios any desired reduction may be obtained. In operation, when the shaft 5 is rotated by. the motor, the yoke 6 is rotated about the shaft 11. Since the gear wheel 10 is fixed, the countershaft 13 will be rotated through the engagement ofthe gear wheels 10 and' 14 and the gea-r wheel 15 will rotate the gear wheel 12, and drive the shaft 11 and operate the recording mechanism.

however, that with different.,`

Referring to Fig. 4, it will be noticed that 'the yoke or frame 16 corresponding to 7 of Fig. 1 is supported on the chamber of 'the motor 17. The top of the shaft 19, corresponding to 11 of-Fig. 1, enrls in a cross 20 which engages a fork 21. This fork 21 is fastened to the shaft 22 which engages the recording mechanism. The operation is as previously described. Y

Referring now to Fig. 5, 23 fastenedvto the shaft 24 represents the revolving disk of an electric watt hour meter. On the shaft 24 there is a worm 25 which engages a worm 'wheel V26 fastened to a shaft 27. The oke 28 i carrying the gears in 'a 4manner simi ar to 6 of Fig. 1 is also fastened to the shaft 27 and revolves with it, thus causing the operation of the epicyclic train and consequently rep dubedspeed of the shaft 29 exactly as previously described. The -shaft29 carries the pointer 30 of the lowest dial vof the register.

. The other dials are operated oi the shaft 29 through the pinion 31 in the usual manner. I claim: V In a meter, the combination with' the re- ,.cording mechanismand the driving means 'fl-operated by the flow of the Water through the meter, of means connecting the operating means with the recording means for driving the same, 'said means comprising a sleeve,

ineens? l of which is journaled on the sleeve and the other of which is engaged by thefdriving means for rotating the yoke about the shaft, gear Wheels on' thesleeve and on the shaft adjacent to each other, a countershaft journaled in the arms of theyoke andcarrying gear Wheels meshing with the Afirst named 20 Wheels 'and-rigid with leach other.

SIDNEY GEORGE FRANK HAAS. 

